Anas · Software engineer · Remote
Most recently at 8x, where I designed and built the client side of a hiring platform with about 5,000 users, including an AI support chat that hands off to staff. I also take on freelance work through my agency, Aurelabs.
Two of these aren't public, so instead of screenshots each one shows how it works. Open any of them for the full write-up.
8x · Software engineer
8x runs several products, one of them a hiring platform. Its candidate and staff sides were already live with about 5,000 users. I designed and built the client side: the interview flow, shortlist sharing, an AI support chat that hands off to staff, and notifications wired into Slack.
Read the case studySide project · open source
A browser-based IDE I built to learn microservices. Every workspace is its own Docker container, with a collaborative editor, a terminal and an AI assistant on top.
Read the case studybrowserThe IDE itself: Monaco editor, file explorer, xterm.js terminal and AI chat.
Request flow. Select a part to see what it does.
Freelance · through Aurelabs
Give it an article, a PDF or any other text, and it turns it into a podcast episode with natural-sounding AI voices and background music. I was the only engineer on it.
Read the case studyarticle · pdf · textWhatever you want to listen to instead of read.
How a source becomes an episode. Select a part to see what it does.
Two-plus years, mostly freelance through my agency, Aurelabs. A side project and a role at 8x branched off along the way.
Also in the terminal: git log
HEAD → mainOpen to engineering roles and freelance projects
Merge branch '8x'
Designed and built the client side of a hiring platform with about 5,000 users, on a remote team of four.
Merge branch 'devpilot'
devpilotLatest DevPilot commit
Eight apps in one monorepo behind one API gateway, deployed to Oracle Cloud.
Start DevPilot to learn microservices
A browser IDE where every workspace runs in its own Docker container.
mainStart freelancing through Aurelabs
Client work since then: Podify, an AI reply assistant and a private VS Code extension. Still ongoing.
For the past two-plus years I've built products on small teams and for freelance clients. That usually means owning the whole thing: deciding what to build, designing it, and writing both the front end and the back end.
DevPilot is where I go deeper on the back end. I built it to learn how a system made of separate services fits together, from the gateway down to the containers.
Small experiments built for this site, not client work. They're working code, so click around.
A torus, a sphere and a warp tunnel drawn in characters on a canvas. Drag it.
This week
1/3 doneImmediate feedback on every tick.
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